Charles had a wild hunch-was it Clara again?

"Who are you looking for?" he asked.

"My wife, Clara."

"Oh, your wife." The words slipped out casually, but then he practically squeaked, "Wait, who? Your wife? Since when did you get married? Who's the unlucky woman who'd marry a stiff like you? Oh, Clara-what?! Clara again?!"

He realized he'd let something slip and reached for his pen to knock some sense into himself, but the guy on the other end must've picked up on it, because the call cut off right away.

Charles swore under his breath and tried calling back, but no answer.

Man, that guy was sharp-just one slip and he already figured someone was looking for him.

Putting his phone away, Charles headed upstairs, dragging the doctor along to Clara's room.

"Heal her. Do whatever it takes, just wake her up, now."

neck. "Young master, I told

you have any medicine or

brain-dead. Didn't I say? She took a high- concentration dose this time. Most people would've lost consciousness that night. Her willpower is scary, honestly. Back in the underground fight club, plenty of grown men went down after getting hit with this stuff. She's a woman, and if she's back to normal in a month,

speaking when Clara on the bed

awake! Do you know who I am? Wait-do you know who you are? You're not... you

around the room before her eyes

about her eyes making

second Clara looked at Charles and called out,

finally clicked, he grabbed the doctor

Is she brain-damaged now?

which isn't actually a bad thing. You

most-she'll recover. She's

cared about his dogs, listened to his two older brothers, and couldn't be bothered with anything

I'll just let Clara get used to having me as her brother She'll get attached, and then Dylan won't stand a chance.

nodded but warned, "Just

had brought over from the Chesters, originally to look after the two eldest. If anything ever happened to Charles's dogs, he'd

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